Improvement in tipping and patching boots and shoes



-D. T. COOPER.

TIPPING AND PATCHING BOOTS AND SHOES. No.181 ,821. Paten ted Sepia. 5,1876.

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UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID T. COOPER, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN TIPPING AND PATCHING BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,821, datedSeptember 5, 1876; application filed July 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID T. COOPER, of Jackson, in the county ofJackson and State ofMichigan, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Tipping and Patching Shoes and Boots, of which the following is aspecification:

in the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a side view of a shoewith a tippatch and heel-foxing put on according to my improved method.Fig. 2 is a detail view of a tip and wire fastening; and Figs. 3 and 4are detail views of the fastening-wires for the tips, patches, andfoxings.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved method forputting tips, heel-foxings, and-patches on boots or shoes, whether theyare new or worn, in a quicker, cheaper, and more perfect manner than inthe old way.

By the old method of putting on tips or patches the tip or patch isretained by sewing through the outer sole all around, which presents avery unfinished appearance, while requiring a great deal of labor. Toput on a heel-foxing, the shoe has to be ripped up under the foxing,fastened to the outer-sole back, and a new heel then to be put on.

By my method a tip, patch, or foxing may be put on the shoe in a fewmoments, and without ripping up the heel-seat at all.

The invention consists in doubling up the edge of the tip, patch, orfoxing, inserting a wire into the folded part, and fastening the wire byforcing the ends through small awlholes of the outer sole, and by meansof intermediate wire clips, which are drawn up tightly, twisted, andclipped off or clinched on the outside of the sole.

In the drawing, A represents aboot or shoe B, a tip, patch, or foxing;and G, the wire that serves to retain the same on the outer sole. Thetip, patch, or foxing B is first doubled up at the lower edge, as shownin Figs. land 2, and the fastening-wire G then placed into thedoubled-up part, and the leather and wire applied close to the part tobe covered. The ends of wire 0 are drawn through awl-holes made in theouter sole close to the upper, being then twisted and clipped.- The Wire(lis fastened, at intermediate points, at regular distance. by Wireclips 0, that are in similar manner drawn tightly through awl-holesarranged to correspond with the clips, and twisted, clipped, or clinchedon the outside of the sole, so as to retain thereby the leather tips orfoxings closelyon the shoe or heel, presenting the appearance of havingbeen put on when the shoe was made.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The method of securing patches, tips, or

foxings to boots and shoes, consisting of the doubling of the edge ofthe leather to be united to the sole, and placing within the folds awire, the ends of which pass down through the sole then further securingthe patch, tip, or foxing by intermediate wire clips, which pass throughthe folded edge and sole, the ends being twisted and clipped orclinched, all as shown and described.

DAVID TAYLOR COOPER.

Witnesses:

JNo. O. SHARP, OHAs. I. HATCH, EDWARD KING.

